Nili Bar, Alex A. Álvarez, Rodrigo Arriola, Gaia-Velvela Barbakow, Eros Quintero, Javier Martínez, Alfredo Silva, Carlos-Iván López-Miranda & Ramsés D’León
Unidad Parapsicológica de Investigación, Difusión y Enseñanza (UPIDE), Mexico City, Mexico Centro de Investigación de la Sintergia y la Consciencia (CISC), Mexico City, Mexico
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Introduction: Since 2023, UPIDE has been studying Direct Vision (DV). To understand this ability, we have conducted exploratory research using controlled methods that have allowed us to obtain reliable information about the possibility of generating visual images from sources other than retinas. Being a multidisciplinary team helped us to approach the phenomenon from different perspectives. We designed a series of tests for nine children trained using a method created by Nili Bar.
Results: DV box Trial: Out of the 27 expected trials, three were discarded because of technical issues. Given the binary nature of each prediction attempt (success or failure) and the fixed number of trials, we used a one-tailed binomial test to analyze the results obtained in this task. Each participant’s prediction was separated according to the expected outcomes in both color and numbers of the randomly selected UNO digital cards, focusing on determining whether the participants’ ability to predict cards exceeded chance levels.
Color Binomial Test: the observed success rate suggests that participants could perceive the card color at a rate significantly higher than chance (p=0.021). In contrast, the Numbers Binomial Test resulted in no significant deviation from chance in predicting the numbers (p=0.707).
Matching cards task: Each participant completed 5 trials, generating 45. We used a one-tailed binomial test to analyze the results due to the binary nature of each prediction attempt and the fixed number of trials. The expected probability of the task was 20%. With 29 successes and 16 misses, the Binomial Test suggests that participants could perceive the content of the hidden card to match with the ones they held at a rate significantly higher than chance (p=0.00000000011251).
Each participant completed between eight and 19 trials of the UNO Task, depending on the time of the other tasks, generating 103 trials in total. Given the binary nature of each prediction attempt and the fixed number of trials, we used a one-tailed binomial test to analyze the results. The expected probability of the task was 32.5%. With 75 successes, 18 misses and ten abstentions (which we removed from the analysis), the Binomial Test suggests that participants could perceive the content displayed in the UNO pile, as well as the ones they hold, at a rate significantly higher than chance (p= 1.5171-21). Considering abstentions as errors, the odds would still be significant (p= 5.3551-17).
Child Assessment Battery EIE (Children Stress Scale), EA (Readiness Scale) and CPIEN (Internalized and Externalized Problems Questionnaire for Children): Before proceeding with the comparative analysis, the Shapiro-Wilk test served to evaluate the normality of the distribution of each variable. Afterward, we realized a paired comparative analysis for each personality trait using a paired t-test for normally distributed variables and Wilcoxon test for the not normally distributed. There were no significant differences in the children’s personality traits before and after the DV course.
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Nili Bar was born in Mexico City in 1973, has a master degree in Science. She has been studying the ESP ability of Direct Vision since 2020. In 2022 she became member of the Unidad Parapsicológica de Investigación, Difusión y Enseñanza (UPIDE) team with which she realized this research.
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Published on June 13, 2025
